{"id":10865,"date":"2007-10-23T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/23\/microsoft-windows-open-sourced-by-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T08:14:35","slug":"microsoft-windows-open-sourced-by-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/23\/microsoft-windows-open-sourced-by-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Windows open sourced by 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photomatt.net\">Matt Mullenweg<\/a> made <a href=\"http:\/\/photomatt.net\/2007\/10\/20\/microsoft-open-source\/\">the prediction<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not all that good with specific dates, but it sounds somewhat reasonable.\u00a0 There are many reasons for me to agree on this.\u00a0 Here are some:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neither Microsoft in general, no Bill Gates are stupid.\u00a0 They are very much profit oriented. Whatever makes them more money, they&#8217;ll go for it.<\/li>\n<li>Windows is not the only source of income for Microsoft &#8211; they make plenty of other software (office applications and games for example), hardware (game console anyone?), and services (web in particular).<\/li>\n<li>Every new version of Windows increases Microsoft&#8217;s costs with backward compatibility, testing, troubleshooting, etc\u00a0 by a lot.\u00a0 These things can be easily outsourced to the community.\u00a0 Money saving.<\/li>\n<li>There is plenty of third-party software in Windows.\u00a0 Pushing the system open source is a good chance of brushing it up and doing some refactoring.\u00a0 As Matt said in one of the comments to his own post &#8220;If Sun can do it with Java, Microsoft can do it with Windows.&#8221;.\u00a0 Agreed.<\/li>\n<li>Operating system per se becomes more of a commodity thing.\u00a0 OS wars are in the past.\u00a0 Of course, OS is an important part of software industry, but for more and more end users, the browser is the operating system.<\/li>\n<li>The mobile industry is growing as fast as ever, with the whole variety of new devices, applications, trends and ideas.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a huge money pie, where open sourcing again makes a lot of sense.<\/li>\n<li>Google is hiring all the good people and allows them to work on their projects for 20% of their time.\u00a0 With Windows being closed source, there is no way for Microsoft to exploit that resource. :)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just a few.\u00a0 The more I think about it, the more it makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Matt Mullenweg made the prediction.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not all that good with specific dates, but it sounds somewhat reasonable.\u00a0 There are many reasons for me to agree on this.\u00a0 Here are some: Neither Microsoft in general, no Bill Gates are stupid.\u00a0 They are very much profit oriented. 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